Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Adds Cricket Media Resources

Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) has partnered with Cricket Media to distribute the latter's content through HMH's K-12 offerings and children's magazines.

"The expanded multi-year licensing agreement gives HMH access to over 100,000 articles and passages from Cricket's digital library of award-winning, high-quality literary and informational texts for inclusion in the instructional and supplemental tools it develops for students and teachers," according to a news release. "This includes content from Cricket's beloved children's publications, such as Ladybug, Cricket, Cobblestone, Odyssey, Appleseeds and Ask."

"We are delighted to make even more of our rich library of literary and informational texts available to HMH for use in its curriculum and assessment initiatives globally," said Katya Andresen, CEO, Cricket Media. "We are committed to providing high quality, highly flexible content solutions that enlighten, educate and entertain children and offer measurable results that meet the standards requirements of an evolving education marketplace."

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